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Fourth alumni seminar: ‘Back to the Future of Europe: Drawing lessons from the EU experience since 1989’, Thursday 20 Nov, 4.30pm UK / 17.30 hours CEST

By November 12, 2025No Comments

Join us for the next Europaeum alumni online seminar!

In the fourth installment of our seminars, we will look at how the European Union can and should evolve to step up to the massive challenges faced by our continent in an era of Trump, Putin and Xi.

Our next seminar will explore what the EU has got right, got wrong, and could have handled better in the 36 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It will feature leading thinkers and writers reflecting on these challenges in a series of short interventions, followed by a question-and-answer session with the digital ‘floor’.

The speakers are:

  • Desmond Dinan, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at George Mason University, Virginia, and author of ‘Europe Recast’, ‘Ever Closer Union’ and ‘The EU in Crisis’.
  • Kiran Patel, Professor of Modern History and Chair of ‘Project House Europe’ at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, and author of ‘Project Europe: A History’.
  • Sophia Russack, Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, and Rapporteur CEPS-SWP working group on EU democracy, 2023.
  • Anthony Teasdale, Europaeum Executive Director, Visiting Professor at London School of Economics (LSE) and Columbia University, and co-author of ‘The Penguin Companion to European Union’.

There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions from the digital floor.

The seminar will take place on Thursday 20 November at 4.30 – 6.00 pm UK local time / 17.30 – 19.00 hours Central European Summer Time.

Attendees can register in advance or on the day via this Zoom registration link.